"Crime doesn't pay. Not when Superman is around. Yet that won't stop Metropolis miscreants feverishly bent on malevolent misdeeds. A deadly kruptonite ray gun, knights in armor, anti-memory vapor, a gizmo that zaps bad guys across phone lines, even a mind-reading burro who taps out responses (and who has suspecious abou lark Kent!)--all are called into futile service to thwart the Man of Steel."